I always do single line comments with # but just for the sake of it I tried it with ''' ''' and it gives me a syntax error.
In both the interpreter, and the source code text file, doing - a = 5 '''a comment''' results in a syntax error, with the very last quote at the end of the line highlighted in red. Of course, if I do - a = 5 #'''a comment''' it works. I searched for the problem, and arrived at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397148/why-doesnt-python-have-multiline-comments which says that there are no 'true' multiline comments in python and that all those 'block' comments are actually triple-quoted strings. Then I looked in the documentation and found https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals but it is a little bit too complex for my understanding (I'm just starting python). So can someone tell me why a triple-quoted string gives a syntax error if only in one line? Actually, there are other confusions I have too, regarding using backslashes inside triple-quoted strings to form multi-line comments, and a general uncertainty about triple-quoted strings. Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted comments in general? Something like how I can just sum up index slices by saying in [a:b], the 'counting' for a always starts with 0, a is included, everything up to b but not b is included (assuming this is in fact the correct explanation ;-)) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
